NAIROBI: The Kenya Revenue Authority KRA is targeting to collect 5.2 trillion shillings in the next three years. Speaking during the launch of its 6th Corporate Plan, 2015/16 – 2017/18, Commissioner General John Njiraini says the Plan presents KRA’s strategic direction towards the actualization of its vision, to facilitate the transformation agenda, through Innovative, Professional and Customer-Focused Tax Administration.
He says the Corporate Plan will also provide a framework for further transformation at the authority as it’s seeks to facilitate Kenya’s Ease of Doing Business ranking scores among other critical elements.
Njiraini said “The Plan presents KRA’s strategic direction towards the actualization of its vision, to facilitate our transformation agenda, through Innovative, Professional and Customer-Focused Tax Administration. The Authority has developed a three year blueprint dubbed Vision 2018 which consists of 12 specific and measurable Performance Indicators.”
Implementation to the plan seeks to increase revenue collection from Kshs, 1,067 million in 2014/15 to 2,050 million in 2017/18, improve the paying taxes rank from 102 to 50, raise electronic filing and payment to 80% from (20% in 2014/15),and zero tolerance to corruption.
“We have rolled out the process of changing our tax compliance approach to focus more on customer facilitation which involves building trustful relationships internally (amongst staff) and externally (with taxpayers and other stakeholders) as the impetus to sustain tax compliance enhancement in the long term. KRA’s Commissioner General, John Njiraini added.
The new approach forms the basis for the Sixth Plan’s theme namely, ‘Building Trust through Facilitation so as to enhance Tax Compliance’. The 6th Plan was developed in consultation with KRA’s internal and external stakeholders and it captures the local, regional and international trends and emerging issues in the revenue administration initiatives.
“During the Planning process it became apparent that there was a need to review and revise the Vision, mission and core values. The new Vision needed to capture KRA’s pivotal role in Kenya’s transformation. The mission needed to reflect KRA’s approach to taxpayer engagement and our core values needed to be reduced to a manageable number and to be aligned with the new direction” Njiriaini added. The Strategic Plan clearly defines the vision, mission, and core values of the Authority.
